Posted 10:00 AM by Gene

As with STERNO's God, Roger Ebert is a small pile of common sense buried under a huge pile of shtick. So we were astonished to hear he's made a stink among the GET-A-LIFE! crowd for claiming videogames will never be high art. He is right of course; with their limited first-person perspective and their surfeit of the kind of design work that could have graced Saddam's mansions, video games can never be anything more than a cheesy onanistic thrill, an obsession for the mentally challenged mentally gifted. We suspect no one has let videogames have it for the simple reason that hacks are afraid of offending their huge audience, a strange notion as most of them can't read.